[jrockway]

I think an interesting exercise is to go back through newspaper archives and just take a peek at some random front pages. The theme is that everything is terrible and the sky is falling. That continues today. What was missed at the time was that the sky wasn't falling and that everything wasn't actually that terrible.

Humanity will endure Tik Tok, wars, pandemics, climate change, and pretty much whatever else the big random number generator in the sky throws at us. Find something that's meaningful to you and spend your time there. We're all going to be OK!

[marcodiego]

> pretty much whatever else the big random number generator in the sky throws at us.

It didn't work that well with dinosaurs.

[ByteJockey]

It worked pretty well for them for >150 million years.

If we can't deflect an asteroid by the time we've been around that long, we kinda deserve it.